Sorry consoles, love is over #gaming #consolefail #ps4 #xbone
Xbox One:
- Daily online checkins if you want to play anything
- Big Brother, Kinect edition
- Buy a game used? NOPE PAY US TO PLAY. Bring a game to a friend’s? NOPE PAY US TO PLAY.
Playstation 4:
- No online multiplayer without paying for PSN Plus (nice move…
What if when we die, our minds continue on for an infinite period of time from our own perspectives, even if from the outside it seems like function has ceased immediately? Kind of like mental relativity. Could this perhaps be the source of the concept of the afterlife — an eternity of our mind’s own making?
I just had an interesting discussion about this and similar ideas with another guy here at Ad Astra, and I think this one might be a good idea to work with to create a story. Could people brought back from death (or the brink of death) have seen this infinite time of the mind and remember maybe some of it? Where do the people in everyone’s personal heaven or hell come from — rather than be the actual souls of other people, perhaps they are simply the mind’s image of those people from the perspective of the “deceased”?
I might try something with this. It certainly seems to be an interesting concept to work on.
Spoil yourself this apocalyptic holiday season with English VNs about the world ending or similar dystopian things. They also make a good study guide for end of the world survival. But because the end of the world is suffering, none of the games here are complete~
Worth a look at some of these.
Following on the heels of my earlier mad science, I’ve gone and built an entire generator for visual novel ideas. After a bunch of derping about with Firefox, Firebug and jQuery for slurping, and PHP and SQLite for developing, I’ve put together the Visual Novel Random Idea Generator (Mk I)!
This fun little toy lets you choose a number of elements (defaults to five) that are randomly selected to challenge you to create the plot of a visual novel. I’m planning to add the ability to post ideas and vote on them some time in the near future, although chances are I’ll only give the ability to do this to certain people I know or are involved in the EVN scene. In the meantime, however, feel free to roll them dice and see what kinds of crazy stories you can make.
My new hobby: Picking five random tags from VNDB and creating a visual novel plot based on them.
I used random.org to create a list of numbers between 1 and 1605 (the ID of the most recent tag at time of writing), and used those numbers in order to come up with the tags to use for these plots. I skipped deleted tags (like “chicken sandwich”) and meta tags (like “other elements”) since the first case are typically deleted for a reason and the second case are typically unusable. The result? Each plot gets a separate set of random tags that I have to piece together into an idea for a visual novel.
Let’s give some a shot.
Today is not about left versus right, it’s about ensuring that elected officials realize that no matter how many votes they get, they are NOT above the law. Ford is lucky that he is getting a 14 day stay on judgement, and that he wasn’t barred for seven years from politics.
This is not something that could be written off as a simple screw-up. Ignorance of the law is not protection from it, willing ignorance doubly so. And that claim can’t even count, seeing as Rob Ford has in fact declared interest in other matters before and held off from participating in debate and voting. Nor could the claim that the amount was too small to be of interest or concern, given the big deal that Ford made about it in council. This was a clear case of conflict of interest, and the Municipal Conflict of Interest Act says that an official found to willingly involve themselves in one gets unseated.
Ford is always welcome to run again in the next mayoral election, but I’d much rather see someone with more sense and decorum in the mayor’s seat, even if they’re of an opposing political stripe from me. Bumbling blow-hards like Rob Ford are the last people who should be the chief magistrate of any town or city.
